ASHLAND, Neb.—Villanova continued an impressive streak as all five of its scoring runners garnered All-BIG EAST honors at the 2025 BIG EAST Cross Country Championships Presented by JEEP on Friday morning. Junior Bailey Habler (Sydney, Australia) and sophomore Charlie Moore (Brisbane, Australia) each placed in the top 10 to help the Wildcats finish third in the team race. It is the eighth straight year that all five of the Villanova scoring runners earned All-BIG EAST recognition at the awards ceremony held after the race.
 
The top six in the Wildcats lineup consisted of two runners making their BIG EAST Cross Country debut and four returnees who matched or moved up from where they finished last season when Villanova was the team champion at the conference meet. Habler led Villanova with a fourth place finish in the field of 83 runners. He posted a time of 23:16.0 on the 8,000 meter Olsson Cross Country Course at Mahoney State Park where the BIG EAST meet was held for the first time.
 
Seven of the nine runners in the Wildcats lineup recorded season best times over the 8K distance, a notable stat because the team ran in the Paul Short Run at Lehigh earlier this season on a course that traditionally produces fast times. Habler equaled where he finished as a redshirt freshman at the BIG EAST Championships last season, while Moore finished ninth in his first BIG EAST cross country race and posted a time of 23:36.5. Both runners were first team All-BIG EAST honorees.
 
Villanova's lineup included a trio of runners who earned second team All-BIG EAST recognition. Junior CJ Sullivan (Milton, Mass.) led that group with a 13^th place finish and a time of 23:50.1. Sophomore Jack Coomber (Brisbane, Australia) came in 17^th with a time of 23:58.6 and sophomore Ben Thomas (Sydney, Australia) was 19^th in 24:04.9. Sullivan moved up five spots from last season, Coomber improved by 10 places and Thomas made a successful BIG EAST cross country debut.
 
There were only 36 points separating the top three teams in the standings. Butler finished first with 26 points, followed by Georgetown (42) and Villanova (62). The results mark the ninth straight year and 12^th time in the last 13 seasons that the Wildcats have posted a top-three team finish at the BIG EAST Championships. The remainder of the team scores featured Providence (110), DePaul (163), Creighton (191), Xavier (209), Marquette (218) and Seton Hall (226).
 
Villanova had a spread of just 48.9 seconds separating its top five runners, but there was plenty of team depth beyond those five scorers. Three more Wildcats finished between 24^th and 29^th overall and were separated by less than 14 seconds at the finish line. Sophomore Jack Fenlon (Laois, Ireland) came in 24^th with a time of 24:18.3 and jumped six spots from where he finished as a true freshman last year.
 
Graduate student Devon Comber (Ambler, Pa.) and junior Nick Sullivan (Middletown, N.J.) came in 25^th (24:19.5) and 29^th (24:32.), respectively, while graduate student Sean Donoghue (Dublin, Ireland) rounded out the lineup with a time of 25:47.4.
 
Friday's conference championships kicked off the postseason schedule for Villanova, which will next compete at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional on Friday, November 14. The regional meet will be held on the Goodman Campus Course at Lehigh where the Wildcats have already run this season in the Lehigh Invitational and the Paul Short Run.